Traditional Network Engineer Dead? (ft. Lazarus Agapidis, Network Expert)

Lazarus Agapidis from @telecomTech.explained is a telecom and networking professional with over 25 years of experience in network design, architecture, and telecom technologies. Over his career, he has led major projects, trained professionals, and helped countless individuals earn certifications and advance their careers. His goal is to make networking and telecom concepts clear, practical, and engaging - the way he wished he was taught when he started learning!

Link to the video:

https://youtu.be/uiTDY_edHa0

What's the best way to support me?

https://linkarzu.com/about/#youre-a-fraud-why-do-you-ask-for-money-isnt-youtube-ads-enough

Timeline:

00:00:00 - Intro

00:02:39 - Who is Lazarus Agapidis?

00:05:00 - Born in Canada, living in Greece

00:05:35 - How did all start?

00:06:21 - Astrophysics at the university

00:06:55 - York university, space communications science

00:07:20 - Telecommunications management, Sheridan

00:08:06 - Start working Sprint Canada

00:08:21 - Voice traffic engineering department

00:08:44 - University of Crete, networking job

00:09:05 - Cisco call manager (CUCM)

00:09:58 - Single Engineer at Municipality of Heraklion

00:11:23 - URBACT

00:12:13 - Founted telecomTech in 2017

00:13:36 - Why always looking for something new?

00:15:30 - 5G training with skillsoft

00:16:53 - When you started with YouTube

00:17:31 - What other videos should people expect?

00:19:15 - What's the catch?

00:19:58 - Soon offering in depth courses

00:21:35 - Telecom & network engineer career roadmap

00:22:38 - Do you have professional experience teaching?

00:23:16 - CCNA instructor certification

00:23:53 - Forum mod at networklessons.com

00:24:12 - Rene Molenaar

00:26:18 - networklessons.com labs

00:27:07 - Skillsoft 5G courses

00:27:58 - Offer other services?

00:28:59 - Writing own articles and ghost writting

00:29:39 - Thoughts on role of traditional network engineer

00:31:57 - Should people start with traditional networking?

00:33:57 - Is configuring via CLI still the norm?

00:38:42 - Advise for people starting in networking?

00:40:46 - Telecom & Network professional roadmap

00:43:30 - Linkarzu University at 37 years old

00:45:35 - University, certifications, experience graph

00:47:22 - Lazarus Certifications (CCNP & more)

00:48:43 - Do you recommend certifications?

00:50:50 - Thoughts on the CCIE certification?

00:52:18 - When should you get your CCIE?

00:55:09 - Go from CCNA to CCIE?

00:55:48 - Thoughts on COMPTIA certification

00:57:19 - packet tracer, GNS3 or EVE-NG

01:01:29 - Favorite networking vendor, cisco

01:02:00 - Ubiquiti equipment and experience

01:02:56 - Linkarzu multicast over GRE

01:04:46 - Linkarzu route redistribution lab

01:06:11 - We all talk about this to our partners

01:07:22 - Thoughts on MikroTik

01:11:28 - Experience with MikroTik in Enterprise

01:12:24 - Network Monitoring?

01:15:03 - Tools used for monitoring?

01:18:43 - What equipment for small business?

01:20:15 - Episode available as a podcast

01:20:49 - Do what you love